Maria Rose answers “Based on the last paragraph of the novel,...”

Sarah asked this question about Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1):

Based on the last paragraph of the novel, do you think Eilis happily returned to Tony and she realized she made the right decision? I am trying to make peace with the ending. "She has gone back to Brooklyn...these words would come to mean less and less to the man who heard them and would come to mean more and more to herself."

Maria Rose I am under the impression that Eilis is the passionate person she is about living her own life, plus dealing with the attitude ( both religious standa…moreI am under the impression that Eilis is the passionate person she is about living her own life, plus dealing with the attitude ( both religious standards and moral standards) of that period, she felt she had no other choice but to keep her obligation to return to Tony since she was legally married to him, even though she was already questioning that choice. At this point in her life, she wasn't sure which person she wanted to be with as both treated her with respect, and she had created a life in America, so different from the old ways in Ireland that felt less stifling at this point(less)

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